Launceston Adventures begin!

So I'm heading to the wonderful land of Launceston (renamed Snuggleton by my lovely friend Abby) very soon and I'm feeling a mixture of excitement and dread!  Excitement because I will be living in a lovely little flat which I am looking forward to making really beautiful, dread because I will be leaving my lovely boyfriend down in Hobart, and a mixture of excitement and dread as I will be starting a new job as a Social Worker at Launceston General Hospital!

I am also feeling a bit sad as I will be leaving my lovely Crochet Collective gals, and will be completely without a knitting/crochet group.  Hopefully if I hang out in enough knitting shops someone will take pity on me and invite me to their group!

What I'm most excited about, is that because I don't know anyone in Launie and my work is 9-5 I will have a lot of free time in the evenings to go absolutely nuts finishing off (and starting new) creative projects that I have put on hold due to lack of free time!  In particular I'd love to really get into dress making and maybe take a class or two so that I can really get the hang of making my own dress patterns.

I also found this lovely quote on pinterest which I am really loving at the moment:

I'm just generally really loving Pinterest - you can follow me at http://pinterest.com/annoushkha if you want to see what I've put up :)

Preparing a FairIsle Norwegian Jumper: All Pain and very little Gain

 

Well I've done all the fun bits of the jumper (i.e. the actual knitting) , and after a long period of just looking at the pattern, sighing, and then putting it down again I have decided to start on the decorative stitching, the blocking, cutting a steek and finishing the collar.

 

Scary stuff.  I've put some tutorials up here, mainly just for me to be able to find easily.   

 

 

 

There's a good tutorial for cutting a steek (this is where you baste a line either side of where you want to cut arm holes in your jumper).  Very scary stuff.  I honestly don't know if I'll be able to cut into my jumper without doing a little girly scream, I'll let you know. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I've also found a daggy tutorial on blocking jumpers

 

 

 

Wish me luck!!

Crafty As A Fox Quilting

Inspired by the wonderful Pip Lincolne and many excellent books, I decided to use her idea for a fox quilt, and just make one square.  The plan is to make more squares with different animals, but I am struggling to fit different animals into the same sort of quilting square setup.  If anyone has any inspiration please let me know or comment below!  Hopefully I will work something out and put some more little animals up.  I would quite like to frame them and have them lined up together in my room. 

 

Sewing adventures

Since I've been doing so much more sewing and knitting lately, I thought I should make a few practical things for myself to make everything in my sewing room a little bit easier!

 

Here is the little sewing caddy I made, and a knitting bag as I'm just about to a big knitting project and will need a good place to put all the bits!